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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron

1799 - 1864

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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (French: [klapɛʁɔ̃]; 26 January 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron has received more than 144,170 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron is the 135th most popular physicist (up from 144th in 2019), the 632nd most popular biography from France (up from 678th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Physicist.

Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron was a French engineer and physicist who is most famous for his work on the thermodynamic properties of gases.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 135 out of 717Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Maurice Wilkins, Ernest Lawrence, Igor Tamm, and Josiah Willard Gibbs. After him are Albert Fert, François Englert, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jacques Charles, Frits Zernike, and Hideki Yukawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 4Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Alexander Pushkin, and Oscar I of Sweden. After him are Mary Anning, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Karl Bryullov, William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1864, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 7Before him are George Boole, Ferdinand Lassalle, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Cheoljong of Joseon, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After him are Hong Xiuquan, Vuk Karadžić, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, William I of Württemberg, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, and John Hanning Speke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 632 out of 6,011Before him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Camille Flammarion (1842), Catherine of Valois (1401), François Mansart (1598), Jacques Maritain (1882), and Maurice Béjart (1927). After him are Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Suzanne Valadon (1865), Élisabeth of France (1764), Jean Parisot de Valette (1494), Albert Fert (1938), and Alfred Jarry (1873).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 16Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Alfred Kastler (1902), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and François Arago (1786). After him are Albert Fert (1938), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Jacques Charles (1763), Hans Bethe (1906), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Louis Néel (1904).